The aim of this article is to present the situation of the milk and dairy products market in the EU countries and in the countries which are the world’s major milk producers in view of changes caused by the potential liberalisation of the global milk trade. The volume of trade in milk and...

The paper presents the brief information, based on literature, about the organic production of fruits in the world and in Poland. In order to assess the situation on the organic fruit market comparative analysis of the prices of apples and strawberries were presented. In the study the prices of...

During last eight years a lot of positive changes in the raw material base of Polish dairy industry has occurred. These changes concern the growth of milk production with the simultaneous reduction in the cow stock. In both analyzed periods of years 2000-2003 and 2004-2007 the milk purchase...

The aim of the study was to determine the specificity of the agricultural land market in Poland compared to the European market in terms of what stimulates and what restrict its development. The results of the analysis confirmed that the Polish accession to the European Union is one of the main...

Cocoa belongs to the group of one of the most valuable commodities in the world. Most production of cocoa beans takes place in the African countries in the Equatorial “Cocoa Belt”. However, most processing of raw products is made in Western European countries. Poland is a substantial...

The paper analyzes merchandise and especially agrarian trade of Visegrad (V4) countries. It especially analyzes their mutual trade relations. The main aim is to identify changes in the agricultural sector which have happened during the last decade and to compare differences existing in the area...

The accession of Poland to the European Union turned out to be beneficial for the Polish agriculture as well as for Polish food processing plants. On the contrary to the previous anxiety, the Polish market was not flooded with the merchandise from the European Union countries. Similarly, a mass...

The aim of the paper was the attempt to assess the pork prices linkage between Polish, Danish and German markets. The research was based on monthly average pork price notations between January 1995 and May 2007. The analysis indicates that both short-term and long-term relationships between...

The aim of the paper is to present the trends of prices of farm products and those of food retail prices in Poland. An increase of prices of farm products as a raw material was smaller than that of the prices of finished food products in years 1997-2008. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono...

Some possible scenarios of Polish agri-food trade development are presented in the paper. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general equilibrium model, was used to make some trade forecasts. The analysis showed that escalation of agricultural trade liberalization can result in a...